Book Review: THE PRAYER THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

            THE PRAYER THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE by Janet Clark Shay starts with the biography of Oma Jacobs Van Gelderen. She was a prayer warrior and the mother and grandmother of young people who served and are serving the Lord. It’s no accident that Oma had children and grandchildren who wholeheartedly serve(d) God. She was a woman who asked for and got God’s blessing.

            THE PRAYER THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE includes practical helps in a section entitled “Three Connected Truths Concerning Prayer.” One of the illustrations I especially liked was, “Divine purposes are like checks in God’s checkbook. Scriptural promises are liked signed checks in God’s checkbook. But believing prayer is like cashing the check.”

            Another quote, this one about why we don’t see more prayers answered is, “We don’t pray in confidence because we don’t ever take time to get the mind of God in the first place.”

            The biographical sketch of this very human and godly woman plus the practical help for enriching anyone’s prayer life make this a valuable book. It is well written and concise—actually a short book—but there is a lot of meat in it. I heartily recommend it to anyone.

            It just might revolutionize the way you pray!